Eurovision 2023 - Liverpool

[PR1Berske]

Italy's traditional Sanremo Festival has ended. The winning entry has "first refusal" on Eurovision participation, they don't have to say yes. We will find out.

 

[PR1Berske]

We have another song selected.

Lithuania
Monika Linkytė
"Stay"

 

[PR1Berske]

Chosen tonight by a secret jury with no public vote....well, actually......if I hadn't told you, you would have guessed, n'est pas?


France
La Zarra
Évidemment

 

[PR1Berske]

Released a few moments ago (at 0530 in the morning, their time ), it's the sweet, sweet sound of, erm, 1990s Bon Jovi.


Australia
"Promise"
Voyager

 

[PR1Berske]

We have presenters (so ticket information can't be that far behind)


Graham Norton
Hannah Waddingham
Julia Sanina
Alesha Dixon

 

[T & P]

We have presenters (so ticket information can't be that far behind)


Graham Norton
Hannah Waddingham
Julia Sanina
Alesha Dixon

Good team. Pleased to see Hannah Waddingham there. She has an amazing voice and is very funny and likeable.

 

[PR1Berske]

This is going to divide the crowd.

He knows that he's taking the piss. You know he's taking the piss. They know he's taking the piss. But what if the song is......good?


Finland
Käärljä
"Cha Cha Cha"

 

[PR1Berske]

....nah, these lot are just taking the piss.

San Marino
Piqued Jacks
"Like an Animal"

 

[PR1Berske]

Very 'by the book' and rather cheap pop chosen by Poland last night.

Poland
Blanka
"Solo"

 

[PR1Berske]

Another song reveal. Jovial it ain't.

Netherlands
Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper
"Burning Daylight"

 

[friedaweed]

Still no sign of tickets

 

[PR1Berske]

Still no sign of tickets

No. They're cutting it fine. Maybe Ticketmaster hasn't yet deleted enough necessary server capacity. Got to reduce that way down.

 

[PR1Berske]

Ticket info:


On sale midday Tues 7th March

Ticketmaster.co.uk

Can only purchase tickets for one show at a time

£90-£290 for the live semi finals (Tues and Thurs)

£160-£380 (grand final)

£30-£230 (preview shows - jury etc)

Must have ticketmaster account in your name

 

[PR1Berske]

For the past few years Germany has really struggled, most recently coming last twice in a row and then second to last three times in four years and last year finishing bottom again. Statistically worse than the UK by a long stretch.

How have they decided to remedy this record? By going absolutely fruitloop cuckoo -bananas, that's how.


Germany
Land of the Lost
"Blood and Glitter"

 

[PR1Berske]

Another weekend of selection processes. Let's start with Italy, who still haven't confirmed if they've managed to cut their entry to the maximum 3 minutes allowed.


Italy
Marco Mengoni
"Due vite"






Meanwhile Serbia has......I want to describe it as a performance rather than a song. It won't be translated, Serbia likes to keep its language where possibly.

Serbia
Luke Black
"Samo mi se sprava"

 

[PR1Berske]

I'll just leave this for the forum to observe, though I suspect the one common observation is that the backing singers are doing a lot of lifting. If he looks familiar, he is one of the few returning faces taking part this year. I'll post his previous appearance for reference.


Moldova
Pasha Parfeni
"Soarele și luna"




His previous entry:

 

[PR1Berske]

This guy sounds like every modern radio-friendly male voice that I can think about. Not sure that we're going to Nicosia any time soon.


Cyprus
Andrew Lambou
"Break a Broken Heart"

 

[PR1Berske]

And finally. She'll need to fix her live vocals, which you might think is rather important for an event like Eurovision.


Iceland
Diljá
"Power"

 

[friedaweed]

Tickets on sale today at 12.

 

[friedaweed]

Ticket info:


On sale midday Tues 7th March

Ticketmaster.co.uk

Can only purchase tickets for one show at a time

£90-£290 for the live semi finals (Tues and Thurs)

£160-£380 (grand final)

£30-£230 (preview shows - jury etc)

Must have ticketmaster account in your name

Bump. Today at midday

 

[belboid]

Ticketmaster tell me I'm a bot.

Which I'm actually semi grateful for.

 

[hash tag]

I have just bought Mrs tag two tickets for the final

 

[PR1Berske]

I've got tickets for the Tuesday afternoon "rehearsal".

 

[friedaweed]

That's an hour of my life I'll never get back

 

[hash tag]

I have bagged Mrs Tag two tickets for the final and am now broke until payday.
I think I will leave it to her to sort out the arrangements. I hope she appreciates it when I tell her later

 

[WouldBe]

Tickets on sale today at 12.

Final is fully sold out already.

 

[wtfftw]

my mate was buying for four of us, got to the front and could only find three tickets which were a mixture of standing and seated. booooooo.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I thought about trying to get tickets but then we looked at the price of hotels in Liverpool that night. £600+

 

[friedaweed]

Final is fully sold out already.

I was in the lobby and then the queue for the Friday night from 12.00 when they opened the sale. Not for me I can't stand it, for the Mrs and her daughter. It's their 60th and 30th this year.
Normally I'd have give up after 10 minutes but it kept going down. Eventually I got in and there were 500 sov hospitality tickets left. I love them both but not that much.

 

[wtfftw]

I thought about trying to get tickets but then we looked at the price of hotels in Liverpool that night. £600+

Hotel prices went nuts as soon as it was announced. I really thought they'd bundle tickets with accommodation somehow.